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Secret Garden
ISBN: HB: 9781402714597, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2004
248 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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£8,99
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Garden of Theophrastus Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463440, Carcanet, August 2004
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This new edition of "The Garden of Theophrastus" brings back into print one of Germany's finest recent poets, in translations by his close friend Michael Hamburger. Peter Huchel (1903-1981) wrote amidst the political turmoil of twentieth-century Germ...
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£10,95
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Wild and Wounded Shorter Poems 2000-2003
ISBN: PB: 9780856463716, Carcanet, March 2004
88 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Wild and Wounded" collects Michael Hamburger's shorter poems since "Intersections" (2000). It is published to mark the 80th birthday of one of Britain's leading poets of the last half-century. The dominant theme in these poems is the passing of time...
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£7,95
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Poems and Fragments
ISBN: PB: 9780856463600, Carcanet, January 2004
832 pp., 23.4x15.3 cm
Michael Hamburger was engaged in translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplemen...
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£30,00
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781857547221, Carcanet, August 2003
240 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Between 1909 and his death in 1917, T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) published works that contributed to, and often defined, the major debates of Modernism. A poet, critic and philosopher, Hulme championed new artists and explored new philosophical attitudes,...
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£18,99
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781857547146, Carcanet, August 2003
200 pp., 21.8x13.4 cm
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as d...
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£9,95
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Leaf-huts and Snow-houses Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463570, Carcanet, June 2003
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian landscape which he evokes so memorably, Hauge's poetry has...
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£12,99
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Dancers in Daylight Poems 1995-2002
ISBN: PB: 9780856463648, Carcanet, June 2003
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of several unsettling poems in this collection. Yet a...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857547047, Carcanet, April 2003
96 pp., 21.8x13.7 cm
This selection makes available the full range of Robert Herrick's poetry: joyful eroticism, warm observations of rural life and shrewd epigrams, shadowed by an elegiac awareness of mortality and the fragility of beauty. The poems are animated by Herr...
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First of the Last Chances
ISBN: PB: 9781857546262, Carcanet, March 2003
64 pp., 21.5x13.4 cm
A new collection of warm and witty poems about pregnancy and contemporary life. Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope – and which strip away t...
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